Lawsuits foiled by Facebook Pics

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Article in the Globe and Mail and elsewhere via Canadian Press about people who get into legal trouble because of what they post to Facebook. Actually these incidents have been going on for at least the last 3 years so I’m not sure why CP and the G&M decided to run this piece now. I guess people screwing up their own lawsuits is an original twist on what is becoming a familiar story. In the book, I write about a bunch of cases including the story of the poster boy for this phenomenon, Joshua Lipton. Lipton is the Rhode Island college student who seriously injured a woman while driving drunk. His claims of guilt and repentance were cast in doubt when prosecutors showed the judge photos culled from his Facebook page showing him at a Halloween party dressed in an orange jump suit emblazoned with the words “jail bird”.

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Hey, I’m Hal Niedzviecki. I’m a writer/thinker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife and daughter. Up till now I’ve always considered myself a private person. But at the same time I’m fascinated by people who effortlessly open themselves up to the whole world. So I’ve… more...

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